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Safeguarding

Safeguarding measures protect workers against contact with hazardous moving parts or other harmful conditions when working around machinery and equipment. Safeguards include barrier guards, safety devices, shields, awareness barriers, and warning signs. These methods can be used on their own or in combination to protect workers from hazards.

Hazards

Risk

Hierarchy of controls

Resources

Hazards

A safeguard is solution or a combination of solutions that eliminate or reduce the risk of exposure to hazardous moving parts or other harmful conditions. Things that put workers at risk of injury when working around machinery include:

Rotating parts found on shafts, couplings, feed rolls, and V-belts

Reciprocating or sliding parts such as dies in punch presses

Parts that fragment or rupture such as abrasive wheels

Toxic or corrosive chemicals

Heat, noise, and vibration

Non-ionizing radiation such as ultraviolet (UV) light

Risk

A safeguard is solution or a combination of solutions that eliminate or reduce the risk of exposure to hazardous moving parts or other harmful conditions.

"Risk" means "a chance of injury or occupational disease." The three most important factors that affect risk are severity, exposure, and probability:

Severity — If an incident occurred, how serious would the injury be?

Exposure — What is the extent of the workers' exposure to the hazard?

Probability — How likely is it that an incident will occur?

Hierarchy of controls

When selecting a safeguard or a combination of safeguards, always start at the top of the hierarchy shown below to control the hazards. Choose a less effective safeguard only when the more effective solutions is impracticable.

Personal protective equipment

Note: Make sure workers are equipped with and use appropriate PPE, which should only be used as a last resort, when it’s not possible to reduce risk in any other way. Or, it can be used in addition to another control.

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Resources

This manual is mainly for employers, but it contains useful information for everyone who owns, operates, maintains, or sells powered machinery and equipment. Divided into three main parts, the content...

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This infoflip provides information to help employers comply with the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (OHSR) and Part 3 of the Workers Compensation Act. It will also help them exercise due diligence...